"It's worth what people will pay for it".<div><br></div><div>for me, Tempest is over priced, I'd rather go to ebay and get a second hand SDS8 and electribe.</div><div><br></div><div>But anyway, back to the subject in hand.</div>
<div>And this is just my tuppence worth, YMMV.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure DSI have done some pricing exercises and looked at the market.. don't forget the MAJOR problem with costs is distributers and retailers. Distributers expect 1/3 of the cost, retailers the same. How else do you think they can afford to sell end of line products at such a heavy discount? easy, they want the space back in their stockroom.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, so a $900 synth, breaks down like this</div><div><br></div><div>$300 retailer</div><div>$300 distributer</div><div>$300 Manufacturer.</div><div><br></div><div>cost to manufacture will be maybe $150... </div>
<div><br></div><div>Given how much time it would take to develop a product to maturity (say 8 to 12 months), that's not a great deal of recompense.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been through this pricing exercise twice now, once with the Monowave and once with "Tempest" (not the DSI one, the Hartmann one).</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>oh and the distributer/retailer contracts are insanely tight, try selling online into an area they supply and you'll know all about it in no uncertain way!</div></div><div><br></div><div>Sadly there's no way to avoid this if you want to be sure to get a product to succeed.</div>
<div>You can "pray" you get enough sales from online, but it's unlikely, people still want to see and touch a synth before splashing their hard earned cash on one.</div><div><br></div><div>So if you want costs of hardware down, start prodding the distributers and retailers, rather than the manufacturers please :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 January 2013 08:24, Jay Vaughan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seclorum@mac.com" target="_blank">seclorum@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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These synths are great and everything, but don't you guys think enough is enough when it comes to buying overpriced gear? DSI is charging 5 times what the synth is actually worth, because of the brand and name associated with it - and little else.<br>
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There are much more interesting things happening on the lower end, in my opinion, where innovation is actually occurring. The mutable-instruments stuff just kicks ass .. interesting integration of sequencers, new approach to the drum problem, and so on. Every time someone buys a DSI, they miss out on 3 or 4 mutables/vacoloco's .. and I think thats just a pity.<br>
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We synth consumers have got to start punishing the big guys for selling their stuff for so damn much money. The profit margin on your average volks-synth is outrageous.. I mean, truly outrageous.<br>
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